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From the introduction of W.J. Cash’s “Mind of the South”

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January 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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We are 1 month away from Showcase!!!

#Documentary #Film #Photography #SouthernStudies #Mississippi
April 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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#disabilitystudies #wgs #queerstudies #southernstudies #gradstudents #feminism #womensstudies #fyc #rhetoric #americanstudies #bipoc #indigenousstudies #crt
wgssouth.bsky.social WGS South @wgssouth.bsky.social · 3d
In a political and cultural moment when feminisms are under attack, WGS South invites our community to engage with the generative nature of fugitivity by joining us for our 51st annual conference on "Fugitive Feminisms."
wgssouth.org/2027cfp

Submissions due Dec. 1st! #highered #edusky #academicsky
WGS South Flyer showing the Statue of Liberty behind metal fencing. On the other side of the fence are silhouettes of various protestors. The text reads, "Fugitive Feminisms: Synchronize your calendars: March 11-13, 2027"
September 23, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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“Country Punk Black” has been selected for the 2025 JXN Film Festival! 🎬 Congratulations Christopher & NEEN.!!!

#Documentary #DocumentaryFilm #Filmmaking #Filmmakers #FilmScreening #SouthDocs #SouthernStudies #Music #Musician
May 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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University of Mississippi Library Resources pt. 2! 📚

#LibrariesRule #HoorayBooks #Research #SouthernStudies #Documentary #Film #Photography #YayLearning
March 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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CFP for the Southern Gothic area at PCAS / ACAS 2025 in Huntsville, AL! We want your Appalachian noir, your Southern folklore & monsters, your Southern fried true crime… we want it all! #southerngothic #cfp #southernstudies #gothic

PLEASE SHARE!
March 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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✨It’s the best Film Friday of the semester! TONIGHT is the Spring 2025 Documentary Showcase!!! This event is free and open to the public.
#Documentary #Film #Photo #Photography #DocumentaryFilm #DocumentaryPhoto #SouthernStudies #Mississippi #Filmmakers #Photographers #Documentarians #Storytelling
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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There's still time! The priority funding deadline for our MA & MFA programs is Feb. 1, 2026. We can't wait to work with you!
#Documentary #Film #Photography #Audio #Photo #Storytelling #SouthernStudies #GradSchool #Mississippi
January 7, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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We can't wait to work with you!

Apply today at apply.olemiss.edu/graduate/

(you know you want to 😜)

#Documentary #Photography #Film #Audio #Photo #MFA #GradSchool #Storytelling #Mississippi #History #Multimedia #SouthernStudies
February 24, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Time to get those conference proposals in! Celebrating 50 years of activity & activism in Atlanta? You won't want to miss it! wgssouth.org/annualconfer...

#AcademicSky #HigherED #EDUSky #LGBTQ #Disability #DisabilitySky #SouthernStudies #WGS #transrights #BookSky #skystorians #Blacksky #Historysky
Banner image features four figures of varying colors and queerness surrounded by broken chains and abstract phoenixes rising from flames at the bottom. The text reads, "Legacies: 50 Years of Feminist Scholarship, Creative Activity, and Activism in the South. Thursday, March 6-Saturday, March 8, 2025 in Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia. Deadline for Proposals is Dec. 10th.
December 6, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Join us May 2 at 6pm for our Spring 2025 Doc Showcase!! Check out all the amazing work our undergraduate and grad students have been doing. This event is free & open to the public.
#Documentary #DocumentaryShowcase #Film #DocumentaryFilm #Photo #Photography #Storytelling #SouthernStudies #MFA
April 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I love my job. Students create an object in my intro to southern studies as a final project based on research. Student discovered face jugs and did an outstanding creating and contextualizing the object. Gifted the piece to me. #teachinglife #learning #southernstudies
Face jug front Face jug back
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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We are hiring!!!! The Southern Documentary Project is looking for 2 Assistant Professors of Practice in Documentary Expression. Visit olemiss.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External__Fa... to apply today!

#Hiring #Documentary #Jobs #SouthernStudies #Mississippi
September 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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#wgssouth2025 is less than a week away! The full program will be on our website soon, but go ahead and mark your calendars for what's sure to be one helluva poetry reading!
#womensstudies #southernstudies #queerstudies #academicsky #poetry #disability #disabilitystudies #bipoc #blackstudies #resist
Image a rainbow of colors in the background with a faint script overlayed. At the bottom of the image are flames of yellow, pink, and violet. Also featured are headshots of the three headlining poets for the event: Sheila Smith McKoy, Jenne Sadre-Orafai, and Valerie Smith.
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Want to share stories about the South? Southern Studies graduate students can pursue a documentary track MA degree as well as an MFA in Documentary Expression. Apply today!

#MFA #Documentary #Film #Filmmaking #Photography #Photo #Editing #Audio #Design #Storytelling #SouthernStudies #Mississippi
May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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We're getting closer!! 😊

#Documentary #DocumentaryFilm #DocumentaryPhoto #Film #Photo #Photography #Filmmaking #StoryTelling #Showcase #SouthernStudies
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Students, hark! This cfp is for you!

"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"

Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference

#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
Pink/purple flyer for the WGS South student caucus, featuring a vintage-looking birdcage with the door wide open. Out of the door emerges seven birds of different variety, wings spread wide and taking flight.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"Trans and Queer Solidarity in Precarious Times"--a discussion that takes on even more meaning and weight than it did a month ago...

Get those presentation and panel proposals in by Dec. 10th and help shape this conversation.

#academicsky#education #wgs #southernstudies #phd
#queerstudies#lgbtq
Image features four individuals (mostly non-binary) walking side by side, with a rainbow pattern panning across their backs.
December 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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#wgssouth2025 is just days away! And while we can't wait to share ideas and learn from all our participants and attendees, we also can't wait to dance to 50 years serving our #wgs community!

#southernstudies #womensstudies #intersectionality #lgbtq #bipoc #disabilitystudies #academicsky #edusky
Image is a purple background with long draping theater curtains at the top and an image of DJ GEEXELLA in the middle. There are silhouettes of dancers and masquerade masks flanking text that reads, "Bring your masks, don that diva makeup, or come dressed in your best vibes as we dance to 50 years! With special (surprise) guests)"
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A few weeks ago in the Greenville, MS public library’s exhibit about the town’s literary roots. I’d never seen a memorial to teachers of writers and wish we had more celebrations of teachers in our public memory.

#literature #southernstudies #mississippi
Exceptional Teaching "Carrie Stern really began it. It was her influence on Will Percy," Shelby Foote has said. She also taught David L. Cohn and Ben Wasson. All three have written tributes to her. She died in 1920, but the tradition of fine teaching has continued and is credited by today's writers. In 1982 when authors were asked what Greenville influences affected their writing, teachers were frequently named. While only those teachers specifically cited are listed here, every teacher can share in the pride that accompanies achievement and recognition. The authors in this exhibit named the following teachers: Lester Acree Mary Keady Herman Solomon E. E. Bass Thyrza McCollum Caroline Stern Pat De Jean Lillian McLaughlin Claude Stuart Mary Gamble Lorraine Shell Nell Thomas Louise E. Hawkins Mary Barwick Shields Jimaree A. Ward "From the time I was in elementary school, I always knew it was not only respectable to be a writer, but honorable, desirable. The literary tradition was strong. Who our next writer would be was always pondered. Teachers were on the lookout. The effect of this is invaluable." Beverly Lowry
February 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"

If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!

Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference

#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
Purple background with dual, flipped images (reminiscent of tarot cards) of a feminine face with long flowing hair that cascades around the figure's hands, which hold a planet.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The latest issue of the “Southern Register” is here! Check out all the amazing work the Center and our communities have been doing: southernstudies.olemiss.edu/publications...

Cover art by Blair Hobbs.

#SouthernStudies #UniversityofMississippi #Storytelling #Documentary
February 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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For my fellow #gothic scholars out there: CFP for the #SouthernGothic Area at the 2026 PCAS / ACAS Conference, Oct 15 - 17 in New Orleans! @pcas-acas.bsky.social

Proposals welcome--and please share!
#CFP #proposals #conference #southernstudies
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February 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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The library is a lovely place and University of Mississippi Library is no different! Whether in person or online, you can find all kinds of collections and databases for your research and creative practices. 📚

#SouthernStudies #Documentary #LibrariesRule #YayLearning #Research #HoorayBooks
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Deadline for abstracts is Dec. 10th!

Also, I've never been so excited for conference swag. This design is absolute fire (literally, she's gonna burn some shit down and I'm here for it).

#genderstudies #academicsky #academicchatter #southernstudies #queerstudies #bipocscholars #disabilitystudies
wgssouth.bsky.social WGS South @wgssouth.bsky.social · Dec 3
Conference Logo Drop! Thanks to the incomparable @xtinapaintsatl for creating such badassery for us! Visit wgssouth.org to become a member & check out the cfps for our 50th Annual Conference!

Time to plan how we'll rise from the ashes, y'all. Abstracts due Dec. 10th! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Logo image features a young feminine-presenting figure looking off into the distance. In their finger is a lighted match. In the background are broken chains and phoenix-like birds rising from the flames that engulf the figure. The text reads WGS South 50th Anniversary.
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM